A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. (Yoshida Kenkō)

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

Yoshida Kenkō

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